Linguistic Inquiry
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0024-3892
1530-9150
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Cơ quản chủ quản: MIT Press Journals , MIT PRESS
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Linguistics and Language
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Broaden Your Views: Implicatures of Domain Widening and the “Logicality” of Language This article presents a unified theory of polarity-sensitive items (PSIs) based on the notion of domain widening. PSIs include negative polarity items (like Italian mai ‘ever’), universal free choice items (like Italian qualunque ‘any/whatever’), and existential free choice items (like Italian uno qualunque ‘a whatever’). The proposal is based on a ‘‘recursive,’’ grammatically driven appr... ...
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The Explicit Syntax of Implicit Arguments Although they participate in control relations, implicit arguments are standardly viewed as unprojected ϑ-roles, absent from the syntax. I challenge this view and argue that implicit arguments are syntactically represented. The argument rests on the observation that implicit arguments can exercise partial control, and the claim that partial control must be encoded in the syntax (given pla... ...
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